March 8, 2011
Where do I start?
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is threatening to sue McDonald’s restaurant if they don’t stop putting toys into their Happy Meal. WTF? These people, whoever they are, are equating the happy meal toys with candy from child predators! What????
Number One: This still being America, it is MY decision and MY decision alone what my children eat. If I don’t want them to eat a Happy Meal I will tell them NO myself. I don’t want or need your help to do it. Rest assured, The Center for Science in the Public Interest…….I got this.
Number Two: Who the hell are you anyway? I never asked some random anonymous group you to represent my public interest. I can handle that quite well all on my own, thank you very much. I’ll be doing that right along with deciding whether or not my kids can have a Happy Meal!
Number Three: Butt the hell out! Here’s an idea…..how about you concern yourself with kids who have no one to make that decision for them? How about you take your “science in the public interest” and use it for some real public interest? You can use all of your influence and backing (from God only knows where) and fix the foster care system in this country. Or you can use it to try to infuse some common sense into politics, like maybe instead of forcing people to purchase medical insurance, you can set it up so that those of us who are free Americans can decide for ourselves if we WANT to buy insurance. Oh wait…..That’s the opposite of what you do, right?
Number Four: Who told you what the public interest is? I don’t recall having a vote as to what my public interests are. And I can promise you this: it will be twenty years after the end of the world before I let some random group whose aims and goals I know nothing about, decide anything for me.
Number Five: What science? Who are the “scientists” who are providing you with your information? Is this real science or junk science? Or is it maybe science of the “let’s see how many dumb asses we can get to back this lame idea without thinking about it” variety?
Number Six: What ever happened to parents making the decisions for their children? That is our JOB! We decide what we are going to allow. You can’t legislate stupid out of the world. If we could, YOU would be the first to go!
*sigh*
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Posted by thought4food
November 14, 2008
After the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, four unidentified students at North Carolina State University spray painted racist comments in the “Free Expression Tunnel.” The students admitted to doing it and the university police, state and federal authorities have not charged the students with any crimes at this time.
However, students at the university are calling for a “Free Expression Tunnel Hate Crime Act” in order to prevent/punish actions of this kind in the future. The NAACP are also calling for “Hate Crime” legislation.
I find this entire incident disturbing on several levels:
1. Does anyone else find it screamingly ridiculous for them to want to censor comments made in the “Free Expression Tunnel”? Name it the “Free Expression, But Only If You Agree With The Majority , Tunnel.” What kind of idiot thought bitching about what was written in a tunnel with that name was a good idea? If the tunnel is NOT for free expression, don’t name it that.
2. No one reporting on, commenting about, or involved with this stupidity has yet mentioned that elephant standing in the big, fat middle of the “Free Expression Tunnel.”
3. I dislike the entire idea of a “hate crime” being legislated differently than any other crime. What this boils down to is that people want to legislate thought and feeling. When a citizen of this country can be prosecuted for what they think, we have ceased to live in America.
What ever happened to agreeing to disagree? Every time someone with a different point of view speaks out, people want to run to the legislature to have a law passed against it. We have come to the point that we believe we have a right NOT to be offended by what we consider wrong thought.
Now, let me just say that I totally think that what was written was reprehensible. It shows the ignorance, intolerance, and stupidity of the individuals involved. That’s my personal opinion. They wrote their personal opinion. I, for one, don’t want to limit they’re ability to express their opinion because when I’m successful at doing that it opens the door for someone else to limit MY ability to express my opinion. I feel that I have that right because I still live in America (for now, anyway). One of the foundations our country was built on was that of free speech for every citizen.
I do like the NAACP’s idea of diversity training. But, again, that’s just me. If I choose to become an informed, educated, sensible human being then that’s my right. If you choose to remain an ignorant ass, that’s your right.
I have a very personal reason for not wanting this kind of hatred to spread. I wish people could get over the idea that the melanin levels in our skin mean something about our character. That’s my own personal little pipe dream. As long as we have people who’s self esteem is only raised by lowering someone else, we’ll have people who dog out others for whatever reason they can find.
I think we need to lose the Law Mongering mentality and grab a clue here. Our new President-elect is a man of mixed race! The majority of this nation elected him. People will grouse and fuss and argue and bitch about him just like they have every other president we’ve ever had. The Bush’s were dogged out because they were Texans. President-elect Obama will get dogged out because he’s mixed. Learn to live with it.
One last thing: Be careful what you wish for. All of these laws that people want to make up concerning “hate crimes” can’t be implemented to cover only what YOU want them to mean. Eventually each and every one of you who want them will be subject to them yourselves. Then YOU will be the one who can’t say what you think or believe or feel.
At that point you will no longer live in the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave”.
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Posted by thought4food
October 26, 2007
Zero Tolerance = Zero Common Sense This is just an excuse to keep from having to think for yourself. Anytime a second grade student is suspended for a freakin stick figure drawing and children are banned from playing cops and robbers, we have gone way too far.
Chernobyl spread radiation through the atmosphere and it infested the wombs of all child bearing women as well as anyone with a functioning brain cell and we are seeing the results of that today in the following ways: Homeland Security, Political Correctness, the attack on smokers by lying drunken sex abuser politicians, the American people allowing this to happen, the fact that we allow sports figures to make millions of dollars to play a game but the people who educate our children barely make a living wage. I could keep listing things until your momma spits up, but you get the point.
Fire should be regulated and taxed. We should put Homeland Security on that right away.
It is my own personal belief that Homeland Security is about as useful as windshield wipers on a cat’s ass.
It is also my own personal belief that Homeland Security will probably come knocking on my door some day because I’m a threat to…..well…..homeland security, due to my subversive nature. And the fact that I have the audacity to say they are a crock of shit on the internet. And that I believe they are the single greatest threat to the American people since 1776. Any time Homeland Security is in charge of who gets to join the Mile High Club, you have a problem that needs solving, boys and girls. Think about it. Lucky for Homeland Security, not many of you read my blog!
If Homeland Security really wanted to secure the homeland, the first thing they would do is execute every treasonous bastard that had a hand in forming that organization in the first place. Then they would arrest themselves for treason, and then vaporize the organization for all time. THAT would be some homeland security!
Don’t let other people tell you what is okay and what isn’t. Political Correctness is just someone else’s way of saying “Do what I want you to do or I’m going to make you feel bad about yourself.” It’s schoolyard bullshit in it’s most refined form. Don’t fall for it again.
FINALLY! Someone had the dump-truck sized balls to say something in Blackwater’s favor! Give that man a medal! It’s the saddest thing in the world when it takes balls to say the simple truth. Americans used to be known for that. Now we’re not. What does that say about us?
We need to take care of our soldiers and our veterans. We need to take BETTER care of them. We really don’t need to have this explained to death do we?
Don’t be greedy. It’s unattractive in the extreme. Nobody likes that about you but you.
Don’t be selfish. It’s unattractive in the extreme. Nobody likes that about you but you.
What goes around comes around. Don’t be surprised when it comes back on you. You might think you’re being slick right now, but it won’t look so good when you’re on the receiving end.
Play fair. You learned this in first grade. It still applies. The rules didn’t change when you hit twenty-one.
If you can’t tell your grandma about it, you probably shouldn’t do it.
The spell-checker on a blog should include the word “blog” in its’ dictionary! Seriously!
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Posted by thought4food
October 4, 2007
I watched the news today and saw a story about a foster child being sent into court ordered risk of child abuse. I have first hand experience with exactly this issue. It is both astonishing and sickening how many people will blindly send a defenceless child into danger simply because the letter of the law says to do so. It sounds eerily similar to the Nazi’s claiming that they were only following orders.
In the case of the foster child, he is 2 years old and has lived with the foster parents virtually his entire life. His parents have lost all parental rights and the foster parents want to adopt him. The birth father, a convicted pedophile who is a Mexican national, stated in court that when released from prison he intends to return to Mexico to live with his mother. His birth mother never showed up for the hearing.
However, before the foster parents can adopt him the state must try to find a blood relative who is willing to take him. After a 2 year search, the mother of the pedophile finally agreeed to take the child. Yes, this is the same woman that the pedophile father will be living with when he gets out of prison. In another country. Where the United States, the birth country of this 2 year old child, will have no jurisdiction. And the state is actually defending their position of sending this AMERICAN child there and not letting him be adopted here by the only family he has ever known.
He will be taken away from the only parents he has ever known and sent to a country he has never seen to live with people he doesn’t know, who speak a language he doesn’t understand. And why are they even thinking about doing this? Because the stated goal of Social Services Departments in this country is to keep families together. NOT……I repeat NOT the welfare of children. Look it up.
If this isn’t a case of court ordered child abuse I’ll kiss your ass on the courthouse square at high noon.
Did you know that if you have a child crossing a county line for visitation and they are abused, if you do not see the abuse yourself, and there is no physical proof of abuse, you cannot report it in your county? Because YOUR county doesn’t have jurisdiction in any other county. Think about that for a second. This means that you have to literally stand outside the windows on the sidewalk peeking in and witness the abuse yourself in order to report your child being abused in another county. Scary isn’t it?
Can you imagine what it would be like for a child to be sent into another country? No offense to Mexico, I happen to love that country. The fact that it’s another country just makes it exponentially more likely that he’ll be lost.
We wonder why people are so much more violent than they were in the past. It isn’t the availability of guns. It isn’t violence in movies and on TV. (although it might have something to do with the JackAss movies and Bam, but that’s another blog) It isn’t even drugs. For the most part those things are all symptoms and tools. Until children are big enough to DO the things that catch our attention, we allow the most atrocious things to happen to them and we hide behind the letter of the law like that makes it alright.
It took My Dearest Husband and I years of anguish and pain, along with the help of an incredibly wonderful counselor who was willing to actually DO something, to finally get our daughter out of a sentence of court ordered child abuse. And now we are seeing all the unfortunate effects of the time she spent in that hell. She will never be who she could have been if there had been more people like her counselor. She will never be the happy, light hearted little munchkin she was the first time I saw her. With alot of hard work, she CAN be a fantastic, wonderful, caring, happy woman. Unfortunately, she will have to fight a fight she had no business having to fight. She should have been protected. She wasn’t. She was tossed under the wheels of the bus by the Social Services system who believes that the law is more important than the well being of children and that blood is more meaningful than love to a child.
What the hell are we thinking?
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Posted by thought4food
October 4, 2007
Life is perception. How we perceive an event is our reality of it. One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. What you perceive as meaningless, someone else might perceive as the most meaningful thing in their life. Pay attention to how those important to you perceive the events in your lives. It counts.
Inaction is an action all by itself. It indicates indifference on a massive scale.
Why in the hell would anyone in this country with even ONE functioning brain cell think that Hillary Clinton would make a good president? This is a woman whose self esteem is so low that she stayed with a man who cheated on her in front of the entire world on more than one occasion. This can only mean one thing: He will pay in front of the entire world, and he will pay big! So, let’s put her in the White House????? Is she planning on giving her VP a BJ on TV during a State of the Nation Address? (Do you think I used enough acronyms in that sentence?) Women who stick around after being treated that way have one thing in mind: revenge. If Bill is smart (I know, I know, but it’s only a figure of speech) he would do something searingly outrageous and destroy her chances. It might save his life. And speaking as a woman myself, I can tell you this: Hillary remembers every one of you who have screwed her over. You might not even be aware that you did. *see paragraph one* And you will not get away unscathed either. Kenneth Star, I’m especially talking to YOU! She will smile for the cameras while she is listening in her earpiece to them tell her that the “package” has been deposited. That will be you in the East River wearing a pair of cement overshoes, going to sleep with the fishes. But only after she has caused them to make you scream like a girl. Think about it guys. Women are by far more vicious than men will ever be. And we never forget a slight. We certainly never forgive one. Putting Hillary Clinton in the White House is like dressing up Brittney Spears and putting HER in the White House. Sounds good, don’t it?
I wonder if the people that Blackwater were hired to guard and protect in Iraq want them gone? I haven’t heard anyone ask them. I haven’t heard any of them say. I would love to hear the answer to those questions. I also wonder who it was that Blackwater had with them at the time of the last big incident that caused all this hooohaaa. I hate magicians because I feel like misdirection is inherently dishonest. So this last big deal over Blackwater makes me wonder who was there and why all the fingers are pointing in so many different directions, but no one is saying who was with them.
Why are children always at their most obnoxious when my head hurts?#$%^&*
What parents say and what kids hear are two completely different things. example: Me-“Hi Honey, how was your day?”
Them-“Why R U gettin all up in my KoolAid?” That wasn’t a good exchange at all was it? We had no exchange of information, no exchange of pleasantries at all. That’s because what they hear is not what we said.
Me-how was your day translation: What did you do that was wrong or that I’m going to get a call from your school about before the day is through?
No wonder the response is so vehement! I have no solution for this distortion as yet, however I am working on it and as soon as I perfect the formula, I will put it on a paid programming commercial at 4:45am and you too can have it for 6 easy payments of JUST $19.95 plus shipping and handling!
When we were kids our dad used to wake us up every morning and whip us before he went to work. He did this because he knew that before he got home that night we would have done something to deserve it. He was right. I’m thinking about reviving that old tradition. Either that, or take up drinking. I’m not really sure which way I’m going to go yet. I’m leaning towards the whipping, but I’m not sure I could stand all that whining and crying. But after the first time or two, I’d probably cowboy up and stop doing that. On the other hand, drinking would be so much less work for me. *sigh* decisions, decisions
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Posted by thought4food
October 3, 2007
Blackwater was hired as an independent contractor to guard and protect visiting dignitaries while they were in Iraq. That’s my take on it, anyway. If I’m wrong, please disregard the following.
Would you rather they wait to return fire until all the Iraqi citizens are out of the way? I’m sure Condoleeza Rice won’t mind waiting under the Hummer until they all scurry inside first. What’s a little dirt and oil up her nose, right? I mean, that’s just par for the course when you’re visiting a war torn nation. You really don’t expect to go from one place to another without hitting the dirt several times on the way, right?
It’s not like they have roadside bombs going off over there every day, right? I mean please! Show some restraint guys! Let Condie get a graze at least before you start return fire! She’s a right tough little cookie! She won’t mind! Hell the Secretary of State would be willing to take one for the team before you actually start firing back. He’s a generous kinda guy.
And if Hillary ever comes over, you can just put a stick up her ass and wave her around like a target peace flag and see if that works out for you. If she comes back full of bullet holes, maybe that was just an accident and you can try again with Bill.
I just don’t understand why you guys automatically assume that when a vehicle bursts out of traffic and starts towards you at a high rate of speed, it must be a threat! Jeeze maybe it’s just some Iraqi guy who’s late for work. I mean, gun barrels bristling out the windows don’t necessarily haveto mean that they are being aggressive do they? Maybe they’re just going skeet shooting at the country club. Did you ever think of that?
And what are a few mis-aimed bombs between friends? Jiminy! You would think that they were attacking you or something, just because they bombed a few barracks and killed a few people. You guys have got to lighten UP! If you don’t do that soon, people just might think you have a job to do there and that you take it seriously. God knows, we don’t want THAT to happen!
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Posted by thought4food
October 3, 2007
Kennedy Assassination
I don’t want my mysteries solved. I want to ruminate about them over a nice hot cup of java on crisp Sunday mornings while I’m sitting on the porch swing with My Dearest Husband watching the sun come up over the valley. It gives us something to really sink our teeth into without getting too full, if you know what I mean.
Like, I prefer the lone gunman theory for the JFK shooting. I’ve seen alot of stupid fast shooters in my time. It would be just about like Lee Harvey Oswald to be one of those gun nuts who put in enough hours and had just enough natural ability to pull that off all by himself. If you’ve ever been all hyped up on the A-line you know how things just seem to move in slow mo while everything is happening, while in reality it’s all moving in hyperspeed. If Oswald happened to be in just that frame of reference, he could have pulled it off easy. All by his lonesome.
My Dearest Husband prefers the group theory. More to keep the argument going than any firm belief in it I think.
We went to Dealey Plaza in Dallas, stood on the grassy knoll, actually stood on the X they have marked on the road where Kennedy took the shot. Kinda creepy how it’s all laid out there like that. We stood on that X and looked back at the windows of the School book depository where Oswald would have been shooting from. It would have been a clear and easy shot. Not near as complicated as it was always made to seem.
The fact is, he had easier shots at Kennedy while he was coming straight towards him. My guess is that he chose not to take them because so many people would have been looking right in his direction at the time of the shots. It would have been so much easier to see him(Oswald) there. By waiting until Kennedy turned the corner and was moving away, all faces and cameras would have been pointing away from his location.
Could easily have been one man. It could easily have been Oswald. Or someone one else. Who knows who it was.?
Robert Garwood
Bobby Garwood walks out of Viet Nam more than ten years after he was captured and held as a POW. He begins to tell about other US service men still in camps in Viet Nam and other countries in Southeast Asia. But Bobby Garwood is an embarrassment to the US government and they don’t like him. So what he says has to be kept quiet. However, what he says can be proven. Google him. Look him up.
Read everything you can find out about his disappearance, his captivity, and his return home. Then think about what you now know about our involvement in Southeast Asia. Think about all of the despicable things our government did to the very soldiers they sent over there to fight. Then decide what you think about what a man did to survive his captivity in the hands of the enemy.
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Posted by thought4food
September 28, 2007
Don’t say yes if you mean no, then get all pissed off later.
If you have something to say, say it.
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
If your significant other asks you a question, answer them as honestly as you can. Do NOT expect them to read your mind. That’s just stupid and unfair. If they could read your mind, they would have already got the Pick 6 number and you’d be filthy rich and boppin the pool boy/girl. Give them some information they can use. Play fair.
Keep in mind that it is not being mean if you hang up on someone who has called YOU. Especially if you don’t know them.
When someone calls you and starts asking questions, your automatic response should NOT be to answer, but to start asking questions of your own.
example: Riiiiiiing. Hello.
Is Mr. Whoozit in?
No, may I take a message?
Who am I speaking to?
That’s not really your business. Who am I speaking to?
This is Mr. Soanso from Suchandsuch. Do you have a number where Mr. Whoozit can be reached in an emergency?
IS this an emergency? If you’ll give me your number I’ll get in touch with Mr. Whoozit and give it to him and I’m sure if it’s an emergency he’ll be sure to get back in touch with you as soon as humanly possible.
*SIGH* Nevermind, I’ll just try back later. CLICK!!!!
Seriously, it is NOT someone else’s place to be asking you questions on your phone and it is not rude, mean, or socially unacceptable to refuse to answer them.
Listen to your instincts. Human beings are still alive today because of them.
Pay attention. To Everything.
Be careful what you say. You can’t unring a bell, and you can’t unsay an unkind word or undo the hurt it causes.
Care.
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Posted by thought4food
April 17, 2007
It amazes me that in the the most advanced time that we know of on this earth, in one of the most socially, economically, and scientifically advanced countries on this earth, we still can’t manage to keep our asses out of each other’s bedrooms!
Who cares if gay couples get married? How in the hell does that possibly have any contrary effect on heterosexual couples? And don’t come thumping any Bibles at me either. Let me just remind you that one of the main reasons this country was founded was the desire for religious freedom. That means that you don’t get to pound your mainstream Christian beliefs down my throat.
We no longer need to be fruitful and multiply. I think it’s pretty plain for anyone to see that the human race has gotten that one down pat. We might even be said to have been excessively successful at it. So, other than procreation, what is the problem?
Let’s just put it bluntly. Because heterosexuals are in the majority, we can just refuse to allow anyone in a minority the same rights and protections as us because they are different. I thought we took care of that kind of idiotic thinking with the civil rights movement. I guess not quite.
It’s funny….I notice that when children are young, you have to point out to them the same lesson over and over. They don’t have the ability to apply a lesson learned in one situation to a slightly different situation. It takes a little bit of maturity and a little bit of intelligence for them to get the hang of it. Sadly it seems that we haven’t reached that point as a country yet.
Aside from the fact that I just don’t feel like someone else’s sexuality is my business, the problem I most have with the national feeling against gay marriage is this: if it’s OK for the majority to tell gay people who they are allowed to marry, how long will it be before they can tell YOU who YOU can marry?
That may sound alarmist to you, all comfy and safe in your bed with your husband or wife. But what if your spouse is of a different faith than you? What if that becomes politically incorrect? What if the majority suddenly decides that interfaith marriages are a security risk? What if they’re un-American? What happens if you can’t marry the person you love because their faith is one thing and yours is another?
Not their business, you say? What about the separation of Church and State, you ask? Good question! What about that? There are plenty of churches ready and willing to marry gay couples. The states won’t legalize the marriages. Their reasons are all based on religious beliefs. That is a pure, unadulterated violation of the rules governing the separation of Church and State. Go figure. Not the first example by far, and certainly won’t be the last.
Here’s the deal. We let it slide that two people who love each other and are willing to make a legal binding commitment to each other, be told that they can’t do it because someone doesn’t like what they do in bed together. We let it slide because it isn’t us. We let it slide because we are ignorant, embarrassed, afraid. We let it slide. And the next thing that happens is, someone is standing in our bedroom door making judgements about whatever private things we do that are none of their damn business, and saying that we can’t do it because the majority says it’s wrong.
Couldn’t happen here, could it? Not in America. Not in the land of the free. Well, it’s not really free anymore though, is it?
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Thought For Food 